You have to admire the inconsistent hysteria of leftwing logic in the United States today. The entire ideology is premised on emotional responses where its acolytes typically say “I feel” instead of “I think,” which is one of the few things they say that does not contradict other things they say.

For example, leftwing logic will tell us that the GOP will kill 22 million people by allowing those people to opt out of Obamacare. But leftwing logic also tells us that the GOP is rushing through a plan to repeal Obamacare and no one knows what’s in it. But they are sure 22 million people will die.

Leftwing logic also tells us that old people need to die, as Bill Nye claims and progressives defend. But the GOP is bad for allegedly throwing grandma off a cliff.

It has been 10 days since Democrats received the glorious news that Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley would require Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort to explain their meeting with Russian operators at Trump Tower last year. The left was salivating at the prospect of watching two Trump insiders being grilled about Russian “collusion” under the klieg lights.

Yet Democrats now have meekly and noiselessly retreated, agreeing to let both men speak to the committee in private. Why would they so suddenly be willing to let go of this moment of political opportunity?

Fusion GPS.

Read more by Kimberley A. Strassel, The Wall Street Journal, at foxnews.com